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Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] virtio-net: Improve introductory description



> From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 4:46 AM

[..]
> > > General question: Is it better to talk about "the receive virtqueue"
> > > (to keep it simple), or "a receive virtqueue" (as there may be several)?
> >
> > For sure Michael can better answer this than me. :) The receive
> > virtqueue aligns to me with "the device", the driver etc.
> > It also aligns with existing sections in device and driver requirements that
> refers to "the receiveq".
> > Since there are many queues, better to refer as "the".
> > A receive queue may imply that there is only one.
> 
> My take is that it should be "a queue" the first time we talk about it. Then if it's
> the same queue we say "the queue".
> I also feel an intro sentence saying something along the lines of "the device has
> receive and transmit queues". Then rest of uses can be "the".
Will update this in v3.


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